loseone'snerve (third-person singular simple presentloses one's nerve,present participlelosing one's nerve,simple past and past participlelost one's nerve)

1. To stop doing or fail to do something because one lacks courage.
   • December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, inTime‎^[1]:

     Zelensky was adaptable, trained not tolose his nerve under pressure.

• bottle it
• chicken out

• hold one's nerve

• “lose your nerve” (US) / “lose your nerve” (UK) inMacmillan English Dictionary.
• “lose one's nerve”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “lose ones nerve”, inCollins English Dictionary.

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